Thousands of passengers faced cancellations as Ryanair pilots strike in a dispute over pay conditions

Ryanair strikes - which flights are cancelled?

Ryanair pilots are striking in five European countries, leading to the cancellation of one in every six flights over the peak holiday season.

The 24-hour strike on Friday, August 10, is the largest in a series of strikes over pay and conditions, with staff in Germany, Sweden, Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands walking out.

Around 400 flights have been cancelled, affecting around 55,000 passengers.

Sky News reports at least 50 flights have been cancelled between those five European countries and the UK.

Germany and Ireland appear to be the hardest hit, with flights in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Dublin among those affected.

Ryanair has been forced to cancel 250 flights to and from Germany due to what they term an "unjustified strike by Vereinigung Cockpit".

The company said: “Ryanair is now forced to cancel 250 flights of over 2,400 flights scheduled to operate on Friday 10 August. We apologise to our customers for this unnecessary strike and regrettable disruption.”

But they tweeted that all flights to and from the Netherlands would operate as scheduled.

What has Ryanair said about the disruption?

Ryanair said all customers had been notified by text or by email and the majority of those had been moved to another flights.

They will receive offer of a new flight, or a refund - but passengers will struggle to claim compensation for cancelled flights.

The airleine tweeted: "Despite the regrettable and unjustified strike action taking place in 5 of our 37 markets on Friday (10 Aug), over 2,000 Ryanair flights (85% of our schedule) will operate as normal carrying almost 400,000 customers across Europe.

"Ryanair took very step to minimise the disruption and we notified our customers a early as possilve advising them of their free move, refund or reroute option.

"The majority of customers affected have already been re-accommodated on another Ryanair flight.

"We want to again apologise to customers affected by this unnecessary disruption and we ask the striking unions to continue negotiations instead of calling anymore unjustified strikes."

Ryanair’s Kenny Jacobs said: “We regret the decision of the VC (Vereinigung Cockpit) to go ahead with this unnecessary strike action given that we sent through a revised proposal on a Collective Labour Agreement (on Fri 3 Aug) and stated our intention to work towards achieving a CLA together.

“We also invited VC to meet us on Tuesday (7 Aug) but they did not respond to this invitation.

“Our pilots in Germany enjoy excellent working conditions.

“They are paid up to €190,000 p.a. and, as well as additional benefits, they received a 20% pay increase at the start of this year.

“Ryanair pilots earn at least 30% more than Eurowings and 20% more than Norwegian pilots.

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“We asked VC to provide us with at least 7 days’ notice of any planned strike action so that we could notify our customers of cancelled flights in advance and offer them alternative flights or refunds, but they have refused to do this and instead call an unnecessary strike in Germany in just two days’ time.

“We again call on the VC to remove the threat of an unjustified and unnecessary strike, to commit to providing reasonable (7 days) notice of strike action and to accept our invitations to meet for meaningful negotiations on a CLA for our German pilots and minimise disruption to German customers.

“Ryanair is now forced to cancel 250 flights of over 2,400 flights scheduled to operate on Friday 10 August.

“We apologise to our customers for this unnecessary strike and regrettable disruption.”

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